Joshua A. Fessenden

Joshua Abbe Fessenden (15 February 1841-24 June 1908) was a US Army lieutenant during the American Civil War who distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.

Biography
Joshua Abbe Fessenden was born in Rockland, Knox County, Maine in 1841, and he enlisted in the US Army during the American Civil War. He became a lieutenant and the second-in-command of Battery H of the Army of the Potomac, serving under Howard Mather Burnham. At the Battle of Chickamauga, Burnham was mortally wounded, and a dying Burnham told Fessenden to save the guns. Fessenden was shot in the hip, but he assumed command of the battery and rallied the troops, recaptured his artillery, and even captured a Confederate gun. Fessenden was mentioned in dispatches by Brigadier-General John H. King, and he died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut in 1908 at the age of 67.